After a successful series of Angel Investor Bootcamps and Masterclasses last year,ABAN, the African Business Angel Network,is looking forward to now launch the 2016 series of investor events.These investor sessions are part of a shared effort to connect the network, knowledge and capital needed to support the continued growth of Africa’s innovation sectors and to help maximize the continents entrepreneurial potential.The series will focus on facilitating interactions between aspiring angel investors, experienced angel investors, promising high-potential entrepreneurs and other relevant stakeholders in the ecosystem from NGO’s government institutions and the academic world.

Announcing the Angel Investor Masterclass Nairobi August 11

To help kick-off the 2016 series award-winning 'European Angel Investor of the Year 2015’Brigitte Baumann will return to Nairobi August 11 to host the Nairobi edition of the ABAN Angel Investor master-class.Brigitte Baumann is a serial entrepreneur; long time Angel Investor and President Emeritus of the European Business Angel Network (EBAN). She is the Founder and CEO of Go Beyond Early Stage Investing and Chairperson of Global Angel Investing group YPO.The Nairobi Masterclass will take place at the Best Western from 2 pm to 5 pm.Audience is investors-only and seating is limited. For more information please contact the local team via Cette adresse e-mail est protégée contre les robots spammeurs. Vous devez activer le JavaScript pour la visualiser.. Next to the event in the afternoon a closed-door hands-on training will take place in the morning for members of the Viktoria Ventures Investor Network.

The Why and How of ABAN – the African Business Angel Network.ABAN

is a pan African non-profit association founded early 2015 to support the development of early stage investor networks across the continent.ABAN began as a consortium of independent investor networks including the Lagos Angels Network (LAN), Cameroon Angel Network (CAN), Ghana Angel Network (GAIN), Venture Capital for Africa (VC4A), Silicon Cape and with the support of the European Business Angel Network (EBAN), the LIONS Africa Partnership and DEMO Africa. In the past 15 months the community has grown to some forty investor networks, groups and syndicates across the African continent.